Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 591 - [Fated Encounters: Nyzzetʼs Labyrinth Conquest] 53/?: Why Are You Wearing That?!

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Nannet received the news with great surprise, it has been years since a new Monster Wave had appeared around her Nation, this being most likely because she and her mother and sisters had done a ʼmass cleansingʼ into the dungeon, fighting and killing most of the strongest monsters around while destroying their hives or hideouts, so it would become hard for them to reproduce quickly or reappear with more frequency in the floors 80 to 89…

Although she knew that from that down below, monsters still kept spawning and appearing one after another. However, due to the differences in the size of the floors, some of the enormous monsters would often not go up willingly, staying around the floors where they were born, and preying in the vast amount of monsters down there instead of going upwards looking for small prey that could not satisfy them.

”This is…”

Nannet was a bit shocked about this and even worried, seemingly trying to contact her mother and sisters through the System Direct Message Function that would often appear in groups of people bonded through strong loyalty or family blood, however, the three of them wouldnʼt respond to her.

”Theyʼre not responding either. Are they busy?” she thought, as Nannet then glanced back at the System window when it flashed, with a ʼding!ʼ sound, a message finally appeared from her mother Goghesdum.

”Ah, mother!” she said, glancing at the text.

[”Nannet, come outside, hurry”]

”Huh? Hurry? What is…” Nannet felt alarmed, flying out of the palace as she told her priest to maintain the Nation secure and to activate the defense mechanisms.

”Torgel, I will go investigate, activate the nationʼs defense mechanism and tell the people to remain in calm!” said Nannet, flying away from the palace through the flapping of her large and scaled wings, which had purple membranes in a similar color to her scales.

She used her Aura to cover her boy and fly outside of the bubble-like substance that surrounded the Gillmen Nation, diving through the deep lake and then jumping outside of the lake towards the surface.

Finally, Nannet was able to glance at the situation with more detail…

”What?!”

I front of her, just two to three kilometers away there was a giant band of enormous dragon-like monsters that released a deadly and oppressive Aura that made even her, an Elder Dragon, tremble.

Through their enormous steps, the creatures expanded their Auras across the landscape, infecting it and changing it, as if their whole presence contaminated their surroundings.

”What is this… grotesque presence? These creatures… such overwhelming power…!”

Nannet even thought for a moment that such creatures should not even belong into this world, their power vastly surpassed what she had ever felt before from her mother, who she thought was the strongest being in the dungeon aside from the last Boss at Floor 100.

Not only these creatures were simply ʼstrongʼ, but they were coated in a power that made them something else, a power that made mortals chill in fear and instinctively try to either escape or kneel pathetically, forcing them to await punishment from higher creatures than themselves.

Nannet noticed as their bodies were decaying and rotten, and their eyes were lifeless yet eerie and filled with bloodlust, the bloodlust, and thirst to devour the fresh blood and flesh of the living.

”U-Undead… Dragons? Zombie Dragons? Iʼve never seen such things in here… only Goghesdum- mother, had told me about them before…” thought Nannet as she glanced at her surroundings, finding a large spark of light appear in the sky, surrounded by dark lightning and an enormous shadow that covered the landscape from the light of the artificial sun.

Nannet was already surprised by the Zombie Dragons, which were in fact the Divine Beasts released by Zudig, the Dragon Zombie Demigod. But when she glanced at the enormous, dark-colored metallic snake atop the sky, which glanced at her with a dozen of crimson-colored eyes across its entire and elongated body, she felt, even more, overwhelmed… she has not even changed into her Elder Dragon form, but due to the paralysis that these impactful events caused to her, she was moving even less and could not even be capable of defending if these creatures were to ever move towards her and tried to kill her or even worst, devour her…